Rational Beings maintain Sovereignty over Nature by educating their feelings, not wanting to act free of them. An 18th century poet who became a 19th century icon. Plus: Phages. What do you know?
I also think free will is misinterpreted. It's free won't as the Zen would joke. The brain decides on something before you think you decided. The only thing you can do is inhibit it or let it happen (and think you decided it). This connects to what Iain McGilchrist says about the problems with being left brain dominant. The left hemisphere believes it's right and without a developed right hemisphere, there is little inhibition leading to fantastical ideas even if they contradict reality.
I suspect this is why many are unable to grok what some of us see with Fuellmich and the contagion theory of disease.
Without the connection to reality that the right hemisphere is supposed to do, one ends up believing in fragments of truth even if they are part of a lie.
What a wonderful essay, and timely reminder. I love that you introduced phases in the context of beauty, and of course Dr Couey is right on track with his investigation and hypotheses. They sound like an elegant solution to many things, especially their place within the irreducible complexity of biology. Because phages are so easy to grow, they were used in the Soviet Union (especially Georgia) for decades even after antibiotics became dominant in the West.
They kept developing phage therapies quietly during the Cold War, while the West forgot about them.
Clarinet Concerto #3 is a relaxing piece of beauty to sink into while contemplating The Future of Humanity. Beauty in the arts can at least keep a person on the road to freedom, but I feel will not create freedom. That being said, the present state of humanity has left little room for immersion in the beauty in music and art. They almost feel strange in this epoch. I still fear for the future of humanity.
Fear not! Ascend to the Sublime! Classical Art is the way to boost creativity as well as understanding. „Classical“, as was stressed in a great RTF lecture by Dr. Quan Le a while ago, is that what is timeless. Time, according to the philosophy of Eastern Asia, is what materialises in the presence of greed, anger, fear or unawareness. Timelessness is what manifests in the absence of greed, anger, fear or unawareness. Beauty will not create freedom, true. But Freedom can only be accessed THROUGH beauty. Schiller and other classics are indeed timeless, immortal, because they affect us through their goodness, truth, and beauty. You/we have to make a deliberate decision to immerse us in these works. It does not come at any cost, not even time! It is very expensive NOT to do it. Those who act in greed or anger or cause time to run out. Those who remain in fear or unawareness lose their connection to timelessness.
Great stuff Uwe.
We’ll have to have you on our fireside chat sometime to talk Schiller and the Sublime.
This is a beautiful composition. Made me realize that I need to take in more classical music into my soul. Will check out all referenced vids
Schiller says what Musashi said but with a different culture.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_zjR2I5TruA
I also think free will is misinterpreted. It's free won't as the Zen would joke. The brain decides on something before you think you decided. The only thing you can do is inhibit it or let it happen (and think you decided it). This connects to what Iain McGilchrist says about the problems with being left brain dominant. The left hemisphere believes it's right and without a developed right hemisphere, there is little inhibition leading to fantastical ideas even if they contradict reality.
https://robc137.substack.com/p/left-brain-vs-whole-brain-in-battlestar
I suspect this is why many are unable to grok what some of us see with Fuellmich and the contagion theory of disease.
Without the connection to reality that the right hemisphere is supposed to do, one ends up believing in fragments of truth even if they are part of a lie.
https://www.activistpost.com/node-without-consent/
What a wonderful essay, and timely reminder. I love that you introduced phases in the context of beauty, and of course Dr Couey is right on track with his investigation and hypotheses. They sound like an elegant solution to many things, especially their place within the irreducible complexity of biology. Because phages are so easy to grow, they were used in the Soviet Union (especially Georgia) for decades even after antibiotics became dominant in the West.
They kept developing phage therapies quietly during the Cold War, while the West forgot about them.
Clarinet Concerto #3 is a relaxing piece of beauty to sink into while contemplating The Future of Humanity. Beauty in the arts can at least keep a person on the road to freedom, but I feel will not create freedom. That being said, the present state of humanity has left little room for immersion in the beauty in music and art. They almost feel strange in this epoch. I still fear for the future of humanity.
Fear not! Ascend to the Sublime! Classical Art is the way to boost creativity as well as understanding. „Classical“, as was stressed in a great RTF lecture by Dr. Quan Le a while ago, is that what is timeless. Time, according to the philosophy of Eastern Asia, is what materialises in the presence of greed, anger, fear or unawareness. Timelessness is what manifests in the absence of greed, anger, fear or unawareness. Beauty will not create freedom, true. But Freedom can only be accessed THROUGH beauty. Schiller and other classics are indeed timeless, immortal, because they affect us through their goodness, truth, and beauty. You/we have to make a deliberate decision to immerse us in these works. It does not come at any cost, not even time! It is very expensive NOT to do it. Those who act in greed or anger or cause time to run out. Those who remain in fear or unawareness lose their connection to timelessness.